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Yuan, Lu; Huang, Yingshi; Li, Shuhang; Chen, Ping – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2023
Online calibration is a key technology for item calibration in computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and has been widely used in various forms of CAT, including unidimensional CAT, multidimensional CAT (MCAT), CAT with polytomously scored items, and cognitive diagnostic CAT. However, as multidimensional and polytomous assessment data become more…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Computation, Test Items
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Sun-Joo Cho; Amanda Goodwin; Matthew Naveiras; Paul De Boeck – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2024
Explanatory item response models (EIRMs) have been applied to investigate the effects of person covariates, item covariates, and their interactions in the fields of reading education and psycholinguistics. In practice, it is often assumed that the relationships between the covariates and the logit transformation of item response probability are…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Models, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
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Chen, Chia-Wen; Wang, Wen-Chung; Chiu, Ming Ming; Ro, Sage – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2020
The use of computerized adaptive testing algorithms for ranking items (e.g., college preferences, career choices) involves two major challenges: unacceptably high computation times (selecting from a large item pool with many dimensions) and biased results (enhanced preferences or intensified examinee responses because of repeated statements across…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Test Items, Selection
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DeCarlo, Lawrence T. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2023
A conceptualization of multiple-choice exams in terms of signal detection theory (SDT) leads to simple measures of item difficulty and item discrimination that are closely related to, but also distinct from, those used in classical item analysis (CIA). The theory defines a "true split," depending on whether or not examinees know an item,…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Item Analysis, Test Wiseness
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Chun Wang; Ping Chen; Shengyu Jiang – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2020
Many large-scale educational surveys have moved from linear form design to multistage testing (MST) design. One advantage of MST is that it can provide more accurate latent trait [theta] estimates using fewer items than required by linear tests. However, MST generates incomplete response data by design; hence, questions remain as to how to…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Items, Adaptive Testing, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
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Cheng, Ying; Liu, Cheng – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016
For a certification, licensure, or placement exam, allowing examinees to take multiple attempts at the test could effectively change the pass rate. Change in the pass rate can occur without any change in the underlying latent trait, and can be an artifact of multiple attempts and imperfect reliability of the test. By deriving formulae to compute…
Descriptors: Testing, Computation, Change, Simulation
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Liu, Chen-Wei; Wang, Wen-Chung – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2017
The examinee-selected-item (ESI) design, in which examinees are required to respond to a fixed number of items in a given set of items (e.g., choose one item to respond from a pair of items), always yields incomplete data (i.e., only the selected items are answered and the others have missing data) that are likely nonignorable. Therefore, using…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Data Analysis
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Sinharay, Sandip – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016
De la Torre and Deng suggested a resampling-based approach for person-fit assessment (PFA). The approach involves the use of the [math equation unavailable] statistic, a corrected expected a posteriori estimate of the examinee ability, and the Monte Carlo (MC) resampling method. The Type I error rate of the approach was closer to the nominal level…
Descriptors: Sampling, Research Methodology, Error Patterns, Monte Carlo Methods
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van der Palm, Daniël W.; van der Ark, L. Andries; Sijtsma, Klaas – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2014
The latent class reliability coefficient (LCRC) is improved by using the divisive latent class model instead of the unrestricted latent class model. This results in the divisive latent class reliability coefficient (DLCRC), which unlike LCRC avoids making subjective decisions about the best solution and thus avoids judgment error. A computational…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Scores, Computation, Simulation
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Wang, Wenyi; Song, Lihong; Chen, Ping; Meng, Yaru; Ding, Shuliang – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2015
Classification consistency and accuracy are viewed as important indicators for evaluating the reliability and validity of classification results in cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA). Pattern-level classification consistency and accuracy indices were introduced by Cui, Gierl, and Chang. However, the indices at the attribute level have not yet…
Descriptors: Classification, Reliability, Accuracy, Cognitive Tests
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Falk, Carl F.; Cai, Li – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016
We present a logistic function of a monotonic polynomial with a lower asymptote, allowing additional flexibility beyond the three-parameter logistic model. We develop a maximum marginal likelihood-based approach to estimate the item parameters. The new item response model is demonstrated on math assessment data from a state, and a computationally…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Guessing (Tests), Mathematics Tests, Simulation
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Lathrop, Quinn N.; Cheng, Ying – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2014
When cut scores for classifications occur on the total score scale, popular methods for estimating classification accuracy (CA) and classification consistency (CC) require assumptions about a parametric form of the test scores or about a parametric response model, such as item response theory (IRT). This article develops an approach to estimate CA…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Classification, Computation, Nonparametric Statistics
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Pohl, Steffi – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2013
This article introduces longitudinal multistage testing (lMST), a special form of multistage testing (MST), as a method for adaptive testing in longitudinal large-scale studies. In lMST designs, test forms of different difficulty levels are used, whereas the values on a pretest determine the routing to these test forms. Since lMST allows for…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Longitudinal Studies, Difficulty Level, Comparative Analysis
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Rutkowski, Leslie; Zhou, Yan – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2015
Given the importance of large-scale assessments to educational policy conversations, it is critical that subpopulation achievement is estimated reliably and with sufficient precision. Despite this importance, biased subpopulation estimates have been found to occur when variables in the conditioning model side of a latent regression model contain…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Error Correction, Regression (Statistics), Computation
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Schroeders, Ulrich; Robitzsch, Alexander; Schipolowski, Stefan – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2014
C-tests are a specific variant of cloze tests that are considered time-efficient, valid indicators of general language proficiency. They are commonly analyzed with models of item response theory assuming local item independence. In this article we estimated local interdependencies for 12 C-tests and compared the changes in item difficulties,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Psychometrics, Cloze Procedure, Language Tests
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